Toy picture book



29, 1925. 1,555,135 G. M. MABRY I oy PI c'rURE BOOK Filed Oct. 1924Patented Sept. 29, 1925.

UNiTED STATES GUSTRINE MILNER MABRY, OF BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA.

TOY PICTURE BOOK.

Application filed 0ctober G, 1924. Serial No. 741,882.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GUs'rRINE M. MABRY, a citizen of the United Statesof America, residing at Birmingham, in the county of Jefierson and Stateof Alabama, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in ToyPicture Books, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a toy picture book which comprises one or morepairs of pages, each pair displaying on one side a picture associatedwith a movable tab which changes the pictorial representation whenmoved.

More particularly my invention contemplates forming each pair of pagesof a single sheet folded transversely at its center and having its freeend edges bound together or to the corresponding edges of other pairs ofpages in a book binding, and to dispose the movable tab in the fold ofthe sheet.

My invention further comprises a simple and most effective manner formounting the movable tab in the sheet at the least possible expense andto this end the page bearing the picture is slit and the movable tab isheld by the tongues formed between the slits in working relation withthe sheet, the movable tab preferably having stops which by engagementwith the tongues will prevent its removal or displacement.

My invention also comprises the novel details of construction andarrangements of parts, which in their preferred embodiment only areillustrated in the accompanying drawings which form a part of thisspecification, and in which Fig. 1 represents in partial perspectiveview a book formed of pairs of pages embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is a detail view of the page illustrated in Fig. 1 showing thetab moved outwardly to change'the pictorial representation.

Fig. 3 is a partial view of page 6 showing the manner of mounting themovable tab on the page.

Similar reference numerals refer to similar parts throughout thedrawings.

I have shown my invention as embodied in book form, though it will beunderstood that each folded sheet forming a pair of pages constitutes acomplete embodiment oi my invention. I show these pairs of pages 1 and 2formed by folding a sheet of paper across its transverse center and Ibind the free end edges of the sheet in the backbone 3 of the book coverl.

Each pair of pages are similar in their physical structure but willdiffer in their pictorial representation. The drawings in Fig. 1illustrate the back side of page 5 and the front side of page 6. On theback side of page 5 is displayed printed matter which is descriptive ofthe pictorial representation on page 6. As illustrated, the subject ofthe pictorial illustration is the story entitled The Little Red Hen Theillustration on page 6 displays a house 5 having a window opening 6 anda door opening 7, and projecting from one side of the house is the endof a movable tab 8. The subject matter displayed on this tab causes itto harmonize with the pictorial matter underlying it or adjacent to iton the page so that it is not obvious and does not adversely affect theartistic and pleasing appearance of the page.

As will be seen in Fig. 2, to get the change in the picture, the tab 8is grasped and pulled outwardly to the right. In doing so the picture ofthe window closure 6, which was on the tab, moves out of register withthe window and is replaced by the picture of the little red hen. Therepresentation of the door closure, which was also on the tab, moves outof register of the door opening and displays a dog.

This change in the picture is consistent with the story and forms inmany cases interesting and instructive matter for children.

In Fig. 3 I show the manner of mounting the movable tab on the page withwhich it is associated. I provide a vertical slit 9 at the right handside of the house and a corresponding slit 10 at the right hand side ofthe door opening 7. I also provide on the left hand side of the dooropening a slit 11. These slits 9, 10 and 11 are all, as shown,

parallel and of equal size but it is only im- The exposed portant thatthey be parallel.

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end of the tab is passed in front of tongue between slits 10 and 11,behind the tongue between slits 9 and 10 and has one end projecting onthe outer side of the sheet. On each side of the window 6 I provideslits 12 and 13 which, as shown, are of less width than the other slitsbut stand parallel therewith. I insert the other end 14 of the tongue 8through the slits 12 and 13, causing it to pass in front of the tonguebetween said slits. I provide the tab preferably with one or moreshoulders l5-whichexceed in length the several slits so that they willprevent the tongue or the tab being pulled out after it has oncebeenmounted in the sheet.

Having made the tab as described and bound the free ends of the sheet inthe book mounted behind tongues formed by-slits in.

the page, thus making as simple and.=inexpensive as possible theassembling of the book.

Though I have described with great particularity the details oftheembodiment of the invention herein shown,-.it isvnotto-be construed thatIuam limited thereto, as changes in arrangement and substitution ofequivalentssmay be made by those skilled in the art without departingfrom the invention. as defined in the appendedclaims.

Having thus described :my :invention, what/I claimas new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. A picture book of the character idescribed comprising a pair of boundpages connected at their free ends, one page having a pictorial displaythereon and slits formed therein, a slide enclosed between the 'pairofpages and woven through said slits and carrying pictorial matterdisplayed 'thereon which as the slide is moved will change the pictorialdisplay, and a tab for shifting the slide which projects without thepair of assembled pages.

.2, A picture book in accordance with claim. 1, in which the slide isprovided with intermediate oflset shoulders of greater width than.theadjacent slits on both sides thereof, said shoulders being adapted tolimit the. movement of the slide in both dilateit, said slide havingpictorial matter thereon adapted to co-ordinate with and change thepictorial displayin its several operating positions.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

'GUSTRINE MILNER MABRY.

